Slicing-machine.



G. MURL.

SLIGING MAGHINE.

APPLIUATION FILED APR. 1, 1913.

1,064,366. y Patented AJune 10,1913.

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SLIGING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED APR. l, 1913.

1,064,366. Patented June 10, 1913.

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GABRIEL IVIURL, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

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To @ZZ 'whom t may concern Be it known that I, GABRIEL MURL, a citizen -ot the United States, and residentof Milwaukee, in the county 4of .Milwaukee and State of lV-isoonsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Slicing- 'Machinesg and I do hereby declare that y-the following is a full, clear, and feXact description thereof.

The object 'of my `invention is to provide a simple, economical and effective slicing and shredding machine, .its .arrL ngement and construction being such .that the cutting blades are. interchangeable .for accomplishing the certa-in classes oit work mentioned.

lVith the above'object in viewthe invention consists in certain peculiarities of construction and vcombination :of :parts as 'hereinatter set forth with `reference to the accompanying drawings and subsequently claimed.

ln the drawings Figure 1 represents a side elevation of a slicing machine embodying the features of my invention, the same being partly in section as indicated by lines 1-1 of Figs. 2 and `3; Fig. 2, .an end sectional view of the same, the section being indicated by line 2-2 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a detailed sectional face view of the portion of a cutter-blade carrying disk and its connections, the section being indicated vby line 3-3 of Fig. l; Fig. 4f, a detailed crosssection of a Vcutter-blade adjusting b'lock, the same being indicated by line 4 4 of Fig. l, and Fig. 5, a detached view of a form of cutter-blade utilized in connection with `the machine when it is to be employed as a shredder.

Referring by characters to the drawings, 1 l represents a frame provided with feet that are attachable to a t-able by means of clamping screws 2. The frame also carries a coni 'Specification of LettersPa'tent.

`Application filed-April 1, 1913.

Patented J une 10,191 3.

Serial No. 758,164.

abutting engagement with the bearing. Also vsecured `t the spindle adjacent to the collar is a disk 8 having tangentially disposed knie-rec'eiving slots 8, a rim-flange 8, :and an offset hub 9, from which hub there lare extended radial ribs 9 that parallel the knife-slots and serve as backingstops for pairs of cutter-blades 10 and 10", the :said disk constituting a knife-carrying spider. The hub and viiange or" the disk are each provided with alined pairs of lsockets 11., 1&1', for the reception of pivot-pins 12, which pivot-pins are extended lfrom the opposite ends vof the cutter-blades. Each hub socket f1.1 is, as shown, in the form of a bayonet-slot, whereby the :cutter-blades can be conveniently fitted or detached from their seats by first inserting the outer blade pins into the flange sockets and thereafter swinging the hub pins into their seats through the lmouths of the bayonet-slots. Each lcutter-blade is cut Iaway 'between its cutting l.edge and hub pivot-pin to form an engaging heel 13 for a gage adjusting plug 14. The series of plugs 14.- are in threaded union with a head-block 15, which headblock is in spline connection with the end of the spindle 4, .as best shown in Fig. 4l. The terminal of the spindle is threaded Jfor the reception of a wing-nut 16 that is adapt` ed to engage the head-block, whereby the plugs are adjusted simultaneously in order to force the cutting edges of the two sets of `blades through the disk slots to gage the cut, it being :understood that the adjacent discharge edge of the feed-trough constitutes a shearing face for said blades and that their lower cutting ends or heels 13 are seated against the juxtaposed face of the collar 7, which .face .at all times is alined with the trough shearing edge as indicated yin Fig. 1. The collar, as previously stated, abuts the spindle bearing and the same is held thereagainst by pressure of the blade heels 13, which heels in turn are under constant yielding force due to the influence of a coiled spring 17 that draws the spindle and its connected parts rearwardly toward the bearing. The spring 17 is coiled about the spindle and is fitted between a fixed collar carried by said spindle and the rear face of the bearing 5.

As shown in Fig. 2, the alined set of cutter-blades are provided with spaced rectangular' cutter-teeth 10, whereby the stock worked upon is cut into ribbons, the ribbons being separated from the stock body by the uninterrupted cutting edges of the blades 10.

Fig. of the drawings illustrates a cutting blade the cutting edge of which is formed with V-shapcd teeth whereby the stock is cut into correspondingly shaped shreds, each strand being severed by the uninterrupted blades 10 in the rotation of the spider or disk.

lVhile the above described machine is designed to be fed by hand, it is obvious that any standardtype of automatic feed of the stock may be employed without departing from the spirit of my invention. Attention is also called to the fact that by the provision wherein the plugs 1A are adjustable independently, a tine set of the knives can be accomplished and thereafter the entire group can be simultaneously adjusted by manipulation of the wing-nut 16, this adjusting pressure of the head-block being opposed by the coiled spring 17 and, while I have shown and described the collar 7 as being loosely mounted about the spindle, it is obvious that in some instances the said collar may be connected to the spider in a manner whereby it is capable of longitudinal adjustment with relation thereto.

From the foregoing description it is also manifest that the knives can be inter-changed for the dierent classes of work to which the device is applicable and that said knives are held in yielding engagement with a shear edge of the trough by means of the coiled spring, thus insuring a clean and perfeet cut under all conditions and also by this arrangement the knives are rendered selfsharpening.

As shown in Fig. 1 a deflector-plate 18 is secured to the trame 1 and extends upwardly therefrom toward the spindle outside of the disk or spider', whereby the slices of mat-erial that are discharged from the spider are interrupted in their tendency to throw oli' at a tangent and deflected downward upon a table or suitable receptacle.

the pivotal blades in opposition to the spinl dle adjusting means.

2. A slicing machine comprising a fixed bearing, a spindle mounted therein, a spider carried by the spindle upon one side of its bearing, blades in pivotal union with the spider, a longitudinally movable collar iitted l between the spider and bearing about the spindle, a head-block in slidable union with said spindle, plugs carried by the head-block for engagement with the blades, means for adjusting the head-block longitudinally of the spindle, a collar carried by the aforesaid spindle upon the opposite side of the bearing, and a spring iitted between the collar and bearing.

3. A slicing machine comprising a Xed bearing, a spindle mounted therein, a spider carried by the spindle upon one side of its bearing, blades in pivotal union with the spider, a longitudinally movable collar fitted between said spider and bearing, an adjustable head-block revoluble with the spider, adjustable plugs carried by the head-block for engagement with ends of the cutterblades, means for locking the head-block in its adjusted position, and a spring adapted to hold the blades in engagement with the collar.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand at Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, in the presence of two witnesses.

- GABRIEL MU RL.

Vitnesses Gro. W. YOUNG, M. E. DowNEY.

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